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(No Model.) 2 Sheets-Sheet 1. W. G. HARSIN.

PRESS FOR HAT BRIMS.

N0. 406,214. Patented July 2, 1889.

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PRESS FOR HAT BRIMS.

No. 406,214.- Patented July 2, 1889.

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UNITED STATES XVILLIAM G. HARSIN, OF NEVBU PRESS FOR RG, ASSIGNOR 'roFERRY & NAPIER, on NEW YORK, N. Y.

HAT-BRIMS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters'Patent No. 406,214, dated July 2,1889.

Application filed February 5, 1889. Serial No. 298,702- (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM G. HARSIN, of

Newburg, in the county of Orange and- State v of New York, have inventeda new and use- 5 ful Improvement in Presses for Hat-Brims, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to presses for pressing and finishing the brimsof felt and wool I0 hats, in which a hinged platen is used and operatesin connection with a metal bed having a suitable aperture through it toreceive the body'and crown of the inverted hat within it, and having ajacket 011 its under side arranged to come below the brim of the hat,and to which steam is admitted to heat the brim from what constitutes,when finished, its outer side, while or afterward the hinged-platen isbrought down, by a suitably-attached lever or otherwise, to bear uponthe opposite or inner side of the brim.

The object of the invention is to apply in a simple and practicablemanner to such a press means whereby the hinged platen may also bepositivelyheated to subject the inside surface of the hat-brim to aproper heating and pressing action, as well as the opposite side of thebrim, which rests upon the bed, whereby not only a much greater numberof hats may be worked off in a given time, but a superior finish begiven, especially to the inner surface of the brim of the hat. Thespecial means by which this is accomplished are not made up exclusivelyof steam or other like heating-jackets applied both to the bed andfollower of a hat-brim press but the invention consists in acombination, with a suitably constructed and jacketed bed and a suitablyconstructed and jacketed hinged platen, of heatingmedium circulatingpipes connected at their forward ends with the heating belt or jacket ofthe platen and arranged to turn in sockets in the rear in axial linewith the hinge center of said platen, substan- 45 tially as hereinafterdescribed, and pointed out in the claim, and for a specific purpose orpurposes, as will be herein set forth.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification,

in which similar letters of referenceindicate corresponding parts in allthe figures.

Figure 1 represents hat-brim press of the description hereinbeforespecified with the platen down and having my improvement applied,certain portions being broken away and in section to illustrate interiorconstruction. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section through the bed of thepress; Fig. 3, a vertical transverse sectional view with the platen downand press closed, and showing a hat as under operation within the press;and Fig. 4, a side elevation of the press, partly in section, when openand with the platen raised or thrown back.

A is the bed of the press, having an aperture c of any desired size andshape adapted to receive the body and crown of a hat B down withinit,and constructed with a jacket- (Z beneath, into which steam or otherheating fluid or gas is introduced and allowed to cir' 7o culate, as bypipes cc, for the purpose of heating the outer surface of the brim bofthe hat, which, when the inverted hat is inserted in the press, liesupon the bed over its jacket (Z.

O is the platen of the'press'iu jointed connection intermediately of itslength, as at f, with a hand-lever D, whichhas its fulcrum at g in lugs72 h on the back end of the bedplate. This construction and attachmentmakes the platen O a hinged or swinging one. Said leverD is providedwith aside handle 17 for raising and lowering it with its attachedplaten, and, as in other hinged-platen presses, is further provided witha cam-shaped projection 70 in front for a second lever E, pivoted below.85 at l to the bed, to bear down upon, by means of an attached rollerm, for the purpose of giving an additional squeeze or pressure to theplaten when down.

The platen C is constructed on its top or 9c back with a hollowcontinuous belt or jacket 02, arranged so that when the platen is downit comes opposite the jacketed portion cl of the bed outside of theaperture 0 therein and over the inner surface of the brim of the in- 5verted hat. This hollow belt or jacket (1 is also supplied with steam,heated fluid, or gas, so that when the platen is brought down on thebrim of the hat it directly applies the requisite heat to the innersurface of the brim as the jacketed bed does to the opposite surfacethereof, thus subjecting both surfaces of the brim to the necessary heatand pressure without delay. To thus introduce the steam or heating-fluidto the jacket n of the hinged platen without breaking or impairingtheconnections for introducing the same, and to do this in a moredurable and practicable manner than is ordinarily attainable by rubberor flexible tube connections, I connect the belt or of the platen onopposite sides of the press-say on a level with the joint-pin f, asthrough hollow uprights 0 0by elbowed pipes b c, with hollow projections s at the back end of the bed in open communication with the jacket dof the bed, whereby one set of main pipes serve to supplyboth jackets (Zand n with the requisite steam, heating-fluid, or gas, and the pipes Z)c are so arranged that the pipes c, which are socketed to freely turnwithin glands applied to the uprights s s, will, in all workings of theplaten up and down, occupy a horizontal or line position with the axisof the hinge of the platen or fulcrum-pin g.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

In a press for pressing and finishing the brims of felt and other likehats, the combination, with the bed A, having a hat-body-receivingaperture 0, and steam or other heating jacket d on its under sideoutside of said aperture, of the hinged platen 0, having a steam orother hollow heating-belt 'n on its top for operation in connection withthe heating-jacket on the under side of the bed upon the brim of thehat, as described, and the heating-medium-circulating pipes I) 0,connected at their forward ends with the belt n of the platen andsupported by and adapted to turn in sockets in the rear in axial linewith the hinge-pin of the platen, substantially as specified.

\VM. G. HARSIN.

Vitnesses:

JAS. L. CHAMBERS, FRANK M. PEcK.

